Hajong language

Hajong
Hajong
হাজং
Pronunciation	[ha.dʒɔŋ]
Native to	India and Bangladesh
Region	Meghalaya, Assam, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and West Bengal in India Mymensingh, Sherpur, Netrokona and Sunamganj in Bangladesh
Ethnicity	Hajong
Native speakers	80,000 (2011); 8,000 in Bangladesh (no date)
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo Aryan Eastern Bengali–Assamese Hajong; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Doskina'; Korebari; Susung'ya'; Barohajarya'; Mespa'rya';
Writing system	Bengali-Assamese script, Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	haj
Glottolog	hajo1238
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Hajong is an Indo-Aryan language^[3] with a possible Tibeto-Burman language substratum.^[4]^[5] It is spoken by approximately 80,000 ethnic Hajongs across the northeast of the Indian subcontinent, specifically in the states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, and West Bengal in present-day India, and the divisions of Mymensingh and Sylhet in present-day Bangladesh. It is written in Bengali-Assamese script and Latin script.^[2] It has many Sanskrit loanwords. The Hajongs originally spoke a Tibeto-Burman language, but it later mixed with Assamese and Bengali.^[6]

^ ^a ^b Hajong at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^ ^a ^b Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). Hajong Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
^ Ghosh, Joydeep (2019). General Knowledge of Northeast India: For All PSC and Competitive Exams. Educreation Publishing. p. 85.
^ Hajong, B. (2002). The Hajongs and their struggle. Assam, Janata Press. Foreword(2) by Satyendra Narayan Goswami 2001. OCLC 499982956
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^ Singh, R. P. (2013). "Hajong". In Danver, Steven (ed.). Native Peoples of the World. Vol. 2. Sharpe Reference. p. 531. ISBN 978-0-7656-8222-2. [The Hajongs] speak the Hajong language, originally a Tibeto-Burman tongue that later mixed with Assamese and Bengali.